Today...

Monday -
- hand in essays
- hand in reader response letters
This Week -
- "And the Lucky Winner Is..."  - finish
- Remembrance Day Contest - poem OR essay
- The novel The Breadwinner

Thursday, October 28

1. Work on your essays - due Monday, rather than today at 3:30 - hand in title page, web/outline, rough copy and good copy.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE YOUR HANDOUT FOR THE ROUGH COPY.  I should have waited to use this.  You can just write your rough copy on loose leaf paper.  Have someone edit/proofread your rough copy. 
2. Work on your reader response letter.
3. You may have both classes to work on your essay and your reader response letter if you USE your time.  Otherwise your sub will assign "And the Lucky Winner Is" short story.

TEST

We will write a test on Tuesday, October 26th on all of the selections that we have studied within the first unit, IN SEARCH OF SELF.

Students need to hand in their work from How to Tell Renata.  We will continue with our essays next week after our exam.  Essays will be due next Thursday, October 28th.

Essay Writing

Today we talked and wrote about essay writing all class.  Students have to write one essay - minimum of five paragraphs about our unit "In Search of Self".  We will work on this the rest of the week. 

Students handed in their work from "A Taste of Melon" today.

Tomorrow Mr. Mamer is coming in to read to our class:)  and then we will work on our essays if there is time at the end of the class.

Silent Bag Reading

 Reading today. Fill in reading log.

A Taste of Melon

I CAN USE READING STRATEGIES.
1.  Reference Sheet - Literary Terms
2. A Taste of Melon - reading strategy  - "I Wonder"  "I Think" Chart - fill in as we read.
3. Vocabulary and Questions - finish tomorrow and READING BAGS!!

Listening Activity

Good Morning,

Today we will listen to the story Long,  Long After School and answer ten questions.

After that, we will complete work on the Golden Girl with partner.  This is due on Thursday.

If finished, silent reading from their reading bags.  All students need to have reading bags ready!

Exam next week on Unit #1.

Golden Girl

1. Representation of one of the poems - due Monday.

2. Golden Girl - read and partner activity -working on Monday - due on Tuesday.

Reading

We need to practice reading orally and silently.  In addition to building our fluency, we need to ensure that we understand.
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade9/read/9reading.htm

Newspaper Articles are due Wednesday!

Robert Frost's Poem

Newspaper Article

HAVE YOUR READING BAG READY!!!!!!!!!

1. VOTE
2. Newspaper Article - rough copy triangle, rough copy with editing and good "pretty" published copy.
3. Bag reading - be sure to write on your log sheet!  PRACTICE PRACTICE!!  YOU NEED 250 WORDS PER MINUTE!

Newpaper
/2 - order of importance
/2 - headline - important and catchy
/1 - Drop Cap
/2 - Creativity
/3 - looks/neatness
/5 - information - who, what, when, where, why and how
/3 - Mechanics - punctuation, spelling, grammar (-0.5 for each error)

TOTAL  -   /18

Monday, October 4th

Today,

I CAN WRITE AND PUBLISH A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE.

Drafting and writing their newspaper article for "On The Sidewalk Bleeding".

Poem in our reading booklet, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost - read and answer all the questions on the second page.

Voting begins today:  http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf5560

Friday, October 1

On The Sidewalk Bleeding

Students are asked to complete the four questions at the end of the story.

Students must write a newspaper article to report the incident using the pyramid format.  The pyramid format is explained at the end of the story.  Students will be able to complete the good copy of this on Monday.